The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-21
PATRIOTIC MAN0RITES
The Biggest AUTHORIZATION Pic
ME of the Campaign.
Hosts of People, The Bounty OF
the Land Spread Out, and
Royal Good Time for
Everybody.

1t was estimated in advance that the
attendance at the Manor picnic would reach
1000, and cool, clear headed judges of
crowds yesterday fixed in estimate the
number of people who were on the ground
at from 1900 to $500. The STATESMAN
representative, who was on the ground
early, called a halt on his calculation
more than once during the day, and
wound up with wondering where all the
people came from. They went
To the grounds in wagons,
hacks buggies, on horseback,
and in the good, old-tashloned way
of foot back. The ladies were there In
force, and when the dinner hour arrived
thew made the pleasure of their presence
1elt in happiest manner by an array OF
edibles that would have tempted the
veriest Tom AnchOrite who ever refused
good thing. There was abundance for
everyone, and a surplus over that would
have, if all put together, filled more than
twelve baskets; and everything, from the
smothered chicken to the cake and good
Coffee was just as toothsome and just as
nice as fair hands could possibly prepare.
A STATESMAN reporter received orders
Friday night to be ready to go down to
the big gathering yesterday morning. He
was at roll -call when the 6 O'Clock bell
sounded, albeit sixty minutes covered the
quantum of his interview with old man
Morpheus. 1t was promised faithfully that
he could have an opportunity to catch up
on lost sleep en- route to the picnic
ground. How much of this was carried
out can readily be guessed, when the fact
is stated that Major Joe Stewart and Col
onel Miller sat in one seat, while Hon.
Chas. r. Gibson and the reporter stood
guard over couple of sandwiches and
box of cigars on the back seat; Stewart
and Miller talking poetry all the way,whlle
Charley Gibson threw sad-eyed jokes at
the sleepy headed son of Bohemia. The
grove, in what is known as the Whipple
pasture, about five miles northeast of
Manor, was reached shortly after O'Clock
and genial welcome was given the Aus
tin folks, of whom there we're more than
dozen wagon loads on the ground, first
and last.
At IL O'Clock the oratorical exercises
were opened with speech by Mr.. B. @.
Giles, which was brief, pointed and chuck
full of horse sense. Mr.. Giles will never
win premium on account of his personal
beauty, but when it comes to telling good,
earnest and solid facts, he holds full
hand every day in the week. His speech
yesterday was moderate, conservative, well
timed, and won the hearty applause of
the big crowd, fact, doubtless, which is
gratifying to him, as he was speaking to
his own neighbors and personal friends,
and the general belief has always been
that a prophet can't stack up very high
in his own bailiwick. Bart Giles Is an ex-
ception to this rule. He stacks to within
an inch and a half of the ceiling among
the Manor1tes.
The next speaker was Col. Joel II. B.
Miller, who opened by declaring that he be
lieved that this prohibition movement was
nothing less than the skirmish line of a
knownothing party, reading from HE
STATESMAN an extract from speech OF
Senator Cullom. He said he had never in
his life been seduced from his loyalty as
democrat, and fought knownothingism in
his native state of Kentucky with the same
zeal that he was now fighting its bastard
offspsing, prohibition. He declared that
there was not room enough in this country
for more than two great national parties
the democratic and republican parties, but
this party had introduced the very ldet
that had been the cause of the downfall O.
other so-called republics, the idea tina
the citizen received all his rights
from the state. He quoted the Declaration
of Independence to show that THU
republic was based upon individual sover
eighty, and that the vitality of the
republic was embodied in that individual
sovereignty and natural rights, declared
inalienable by the Declaration of In
dependence. He then passed to thu
practical issues of the campaign. Refer
ring to the prohibition bill, he showed
that it Disseminated against citizens o.
this state, in favor of citizens of othe
states, who might buy our fruit and man
ufacture it into wine and brandy, ant
send it back into this state and sell it
He reviewed the whole question of tax
alton, and demonstrated that it was i'm
possible to make up the revenue we would
lose in the whisky tax by the adoption O.
this bill. He dwelt again on the fret
agency of man, and said it seemed to bt
the will of God that every man should b'
subject to temptation, asserting tina
good and evil we're intimately connected
In all nature.
Dinner was then announced.
AS the people finished the discussion
underneath the sheltering shades, of the ele
CANT dinners that were spread, they begar
at once to gather around the speakers
stand. Judge Schuetze was the frs
after dinner speaker. His remarks wer
given in German, and evidently made 8
decided hit. The Judge is easy in manner
fluent in speech, and knows just how t.
turn a point to make his audience good
natured. That he won and completed
captivated his audience was manifest b
the rousing rounds of applause that wer
\ given him.. As his speech was in Gel
man, and the reporter dosen't understan
any language except Choctaw, nc effor
will be made to give synopsis of VIVA
he said. But it must have BEEF
good else there wouldn't have been tn
amount of applause that was given him
After Judge Schuetze's speech the fol
lowing letter was read:
BAsTRoP, July 8, 1887.
Jacob Harrell, ESQ.,, Manor, Texas:
Dear Sir-I am lust in receipt of your invitaio
to be present and to speak at picnic, to be give